AI ART slowing down

Even Matt Wolfe admits that AI improvements are slowing down.  That is certainly the way it feels to me, as I haven't experienced any substantial jumps in image, 3D or video AI ART programs in the last couple of months (unlike last year).  On the hand, I've also been a little distracted recently, and have not followed AI that closely:

Midjourney 

Haiper

EzGif

AI ART slowing down

HAIPER apparently is now a paid service, shortly after they introduced Hapier 2.0.  However I think they did award me with 200 credits whenever they switched over.  100 free credits for signing up.

• PLAYGROUND is using AI for Graphic Design, and does have a free tier

MIDJOURNEY's new editor allows one to upload an image and alter sections, or "re-texturing" the whole image. 

• CANVA bought Leonardo.AI

RECRAFT is a new image generator that tops the other AI image generators:

Recraft.AI

FACEPOKE allows one to manipulate a portrait:

November 29, 2024 -- Portrait

FacePoke

KREA now generates images with FLUX for free -- and will also train LORAS (with a paid plan, or everyone just doesn't have access yet?):

 

November 4, 2024

KREA

Generated with FLUX 

inside of KREA

KREA

KREA gives me lots of variations

VIGGLE. Since last month (October 2024) I noticed a new little box in the upper right hand corner of my Discord server  (where I generate images with Midjourney).  Clicking on this opens up other apps that I can use like Viggle.  So I uploaded an image that I generated in KREA, and animated it with Viggle, inside my Discord server:

KREA

Viggle

I uploaded this image I generated in KREA,

and animate it with Viggle

Viggle

The screen in Discord,

announcing that the Viggle animation was finished

Viggle

The Viggle animation

• MS PAINT has AI
• BOLT allows one to code with just prompts, but was not working well for me

Paid AI interfaces:

• FAL
• Replicate
• FreePik

AI Video Generators:

• HAULIO AI
• MINIMAX

•  AI videos by Florian Nackaerts (Synthetic Pink)

ODD THOUGHTS

LIBRARY OF BABEL stores all the images possible:

• (YouTube) This Program Contains EVERY Image in History 
• (YouTube) The Canvas of Babel
• The Canvas of Babel

AI creates never-before-heard sound -- FUGATTO

AI ART

Midjourney External Editor now allows one to upload an image, and will both add AI features or "retexture" the image:

Midjourney

November 11, 2024

prompt: "drawing by R Crumb" --

my abstract drawing

transformed by Midjourney "retexturing"

Midjourney

Midjourney

Midjourney

Midjourney

Midjourney

Midjourney

AI PROGRAMS

• HAIPER
• PLAYGROUND
• MIDJOURNEY
• CANVA
• RECRAFT
• (HuggingFace) FACEPOKE
• KREA
• VIGGLE
• (HuggingFace)  stable-diffusion-3.5-large-turbo -- for Stable Diffusion 3.5

It's no longer the Wild West of AI ART programs, like it was last year in 2023.  There are less substantial innovations, and less free services to experiment with.